Using the FSB Student Survey, we are looking to answer these three questions:
If you have at least one internship, how much more likely are you to have a full-time job than if you did not have an internship?
What if you have two internships?
Does having an internship mean your salary level will be higher in your full-time job?
After analyzing our data, we found answers to each of the three questions above.
Looking at the tab titled “Internships to Full-Time Job”, the graph of “Percentage of Students with Full-Time Jobs by Number of Internships” shows that 57.9% of students who had 0 internships got full-time jobs post graduation, while 83.04% of students who had 1 internship got a full-time job. We can also see that students with 2, 3, 4, and 5 internships all had full-time job percentages much higher than students with 0 internships. This shows that having at least one internship in college significantly impacts full-time job placement post graduation.
Looking at the tab titled “Internships to Full-Time Job”, the graph of “Percentage of Students with Full-Time Jobs by Number of Internships” shows that 83.04% of people who had 1 internship got a full-time job post graduation, while 89.31% of students with 2 internships got a full-time job post graduation. There is a ~6% higher chance of getting a full-time job post graduation if a student had 2 internships.
Looking at the tab titled “Internships to Full-Time Job”, the graph of “Internship to Salary Impact”, we can see that there is a ~$3,000 difference in starting salary between students who had one internship vs. students who had zero internships.
Overview of survey responses